Last Updated on February 2, 2020
Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding deleted several tweets referencing a study from Biorxiv that has since been retracted.
The study tried to link the coronavirus to human immunodefiency virus.
Dr. Feigl-Ding tweeted, “30) Dear friends, after learning that the original authors have formally retracted yesterday’s ‘uncanny’ titled pre-print article, I believe it is prudent to delete the earlier posts 16-24 pertaining to it. Public health science has never been challenged by both such a fast moving epidemic + combined with instant un-peer-reviewed pre-print open publishing of science before. Science is all about cross-checking each other’s experiments, analyses, calculations (nobody is perfect) until a stable theory is reached and we move further forward…”
The doctor added, “This is why it is important to never rush to conclusions and judgement on pre-print articles that aren’t peer reviewed. Even peer reviewed papers are sometimes flawed too, but hence why the need for replication of work by others to further confirm/refute.”
30) Dear friends, after learning that the original authors have formally retracted yesterday’s “uncanny” titled pre-print article, I believe it is prudent to delete the earlier posts 16-24 pertaining to it. Public health science has never been challenged by both such a fast…
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) February 2, 2020
The Biorxiv study originated in India and was not peer-reviewed.
